Quotes About Technology

does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction

and sleepily thought of how technology was no longer the source of wonderment and possibility it had been...

At some point, Paul vaguely realized, technology had begun for him to mostly only indicate the inevitability and vicinity of nothingness. Instead

I itched to have my phone in my hands so I could . . . I didn't even know what. I wanted distraction. I wanted a Hermione Time-Turner. I

There's a lot more to see when you're playing and because of the advances in technology it makes room for all kinds of new characters.

America's infinitely ramified rail network, whose veins and capillaries once reached into every small town in the nation, has shrunk to 100,000 miles, the same level as in 1881.

I don't like phones. You can't be sure people are paying attention to you when you're talking to them.

Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids.

I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar, and I ended up … making things that I think can change the world.

Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, it's benign... but I would say that the day is not far off when artificial intelligence as applied to cyber warfare becomes a threat to everybody.

Torpex. Torpex is a secondary explosive fifty percent more powerful than TNT by mass.

the three-rotor encoding machine that all the Kriegsmarine (War Navy) ships and subs at sea use in lieu of the Enigma.

We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology, which means that a literate person is someone whose thought processes are technologically mediated. We became cognitive cyborgs as soon as we became fluent readers, and the consequences of that were profound.

Maturity means seeing the differences, but realizing they don't matter. There's no technological shortcut.

We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology, which means that a literate person is someone whose thought processes are technologically mediated.

Science fiction is about using speculative scenarios as a lens to examine the human condition.

what is the role of human scientists in an age when the frontiers of scientific inquiry have moved beyond the comprehension of humans?

A number of human adolescents have complained that Voyl has more rights than they do; obviously the digients have seen their comments.

Most of the other employees have been through company collapses before, so while they're unhappy, for them this is just another episode of life in the software industry.

transcranial magnetic stimulation

What's intrinsic? There was no intrinsic need for digients to have charming personalities or cute avatars, but there was still a good reason for it: they made people more likely to spend time with them, and that was good for the digients.

We need not be intimidated by the accomplishments of metahuman science. We should always remember that the technologies that made metahumans possible were originally invented by humans, and they were no smarter than we.

But Whetstone is positioning Remem as more than a handy virtual assistant: they want it to take the place of your natural memory.

I can vividly recall the way, after he had connected its arterial hoses to a wall-mounted lung he kept in the laboratory, he was able to manipulate the actuating rods that protruded from the arm's ragged base, and in response the hand would open and close fitfully.